Prosperity

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Quotes about w:prosperity:

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• ...abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity...
  • Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe 1719

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• "Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean."
  • Mark Twain

• "Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity."
  • Beecher

• "Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity."
  • Hosea Ballou

• "The increase of a great number of citizens in prosperity is a necessary element to the security, and even to the existence, of a civilized people."
  • Buret

• "Prosperity is the touchstone of virtue; for it is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure."
  • Tacitus

• "Prosperity demands of us more prudence and moderation than adversity."
  • Cicero

• "We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment."
  • Landor

• "He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity."
  • Colton

• "Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear."
  • Hosea Ballou

• "Prosperity, in regard of our corrupt inclination to abuse the blessings of Almighty God, doth prove a thing dangerous to the soul of man."
  • Hooker

• "It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in."
  • Beecher

• "Prosperity makes some friends and many enemies."
  • Vauvenargues

• "They who lie soft and warm in a rich estate seldom come to heat themselves at the altar."
  • South

• "Take care to be an economist in prosperity: there is no fear of your being one in adversity."
  • Zimmerman

[edit] References

• Klopsch, Louis, 1852-1910 (1896). Many Thoughts of Many Minds.